USB port and ship it with a roll-up keyboard. having to learn a new way of writing just for a product to work is asinine.
contrary to some people's belief, knowing graffiti doesn't elevate you into an exclusive club. it simply means that you're willing to put up with corporate work-around solutions instead of demanding something that actually fits your needs.
What if the gate is left wide open?
If I am walking down the street, and I see a store with the front door open, I can walk in, without fear of going to jail.If they ask me to leave, and I don't, then I am trespassing.
unless they're running their system totally unsecured, something's going to prompt you for username and password. that's the part where "they ask me to leave, and I don't, then I am trespassing." Even if getting root is as easy as "username: root password: password" you still bypassed their security. you still *broke* in. let me say that again: you didn't walk in to an unsecured area, you *broke* into a poorly secured area.
I agree with you that the punishment should fit the crime, but "door" is never "wide open" however pathetic the security is, it's still on there and it's still a crime to get through it.
People shouldn't expect strangers not to visit their webservers and try to explore them, especially if strangers are not told what they should and shouldn't have access to!
Right, so running a brute force/dictionary routine is just an everyday normal part of browsing. I totally forgot that the vast majority of users out there have a "Obtain root/admin functions" button on the top of their Internet Explorer toolbar.
No, a better analogy for the internet marketplace would be a street full of vendors. You can buy from them, or if you're a sneaky bastard, you can break open their cart and make off with their earnings, or cripple their ability to perform business. Just how much common sense does it take to know that opening their cart (going someplace the html did not direct you to) whether or not it had a padlock on it, is not what they intended to do.
should hacker and defacers get treated as terrorists? probably not. should they get slapped with criminal charges. of course.
The California Supreme Court has ruled against Kazaa and has declared that 20 million dollars in damages be paid. All bills sent to Kazaa's headquarters were marked "Return to sender"
In other related news, the California Supreme Court has ruled that all public libraries are a direct infringement of copyright laws, since they contain large volumes of books and at least one copying machine, used for the exlicit purpose of copying books, without paying for them.
they're releasing a new version of mandrake linux and they're cutting things out of the desktop distro so that it'll fit on one CD. they've set up a poll for all mandrake users to pick and choose which features they want to ship on the CD.
This is a pretty cool idea. I don't use mandrake, so it does me no good, but the concept is really awesome. build up a community and then let the community drive the development and implementation of the product. this should serve as a great example of what the people with the money should be doing in the open source communities.
of course having *everything* would be nice, also. but you can always download the extra features you want/need.
well, there's always the convience of being able to do EVERYTHING at the computer. if I want to watch a DVD, I'll toss that in my DVD drive. if I want to listen to some music, I'll pick a few thousand songs and throw them in winamp (yes, they're all legal copies:p) my best friend is pretty much the same way, except he plays his gamecube games using a wave-bird IR controller and the video in for his PC. not to mention the overwhelmingly large amount of stuff that we can do on computers that can only be done on a computer.
it's really a matter of personal opinion. if you view your box as a tool and your other electrionics as fun, then you'll naturally gravitate to your other electronics. however, I tend to view my computer as fun and something that I just so happen to be able to get work done on. so I'd rather be on a computer.
As many such issues get ironed out, supporters of MPEG-4 want to ensure that it has room to prove itself in the market.
yes, as I recall, there was a college kid who coded a peer to peer network so that he could swap mp3s with his buddies. he called it Napster. the guy had absolutely no room to prove himself in the market and until the lawsuits rolled out, he was dominating it.
another college kid coded a windows gui for playing mp3s. he called it Win-Amp. he eventually got his product bought by AOL-TW for several million and with virtually no marketing, winamp is one of the most preferred mp3 players out there.
point is, you don't need "room to prove yourself". if your product is superior, the market will MAKE room for it.
well, actually http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/124022 3 slashdot is...but their editors don't communicate with each other well. of course, you can't really complain that much considering that the news is reader-driven. if readers see news and don't report it, we as a community don't get news. we've got no one to blame but ourselves if our news is late.
I'm still amazed that the presiding judge didn't laugh in the face of Search King's lawyers and tell them to get out of his courtroom.
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actually, winamp's had the ability to play video for awhile now. with a mass array of plugins for winamp and it's support for the modding crowd, it's probably the most flexible media player available. however, winamp is owned by AOL-time warner. I wonder if AOL will simply leave it be or if they'll eventually jump on the DRM bandwagon and fuck winamp up.
Are we going to see the crackdown we're currently seeing with Digital Media extended to solid objects?
as more people obtain more advanced methods of copying things, enforcing copyright/patent laws will become so difficult, we'll either see a new task force built to seek out and stop this (gestapoesque) or police forces will simply ignore it, because it's just not worth the effort.
And what would happen if you scanned a live animal? Would the copy you create live?
even if you could create an exact copy, instantly, you couldn't replicate the chemical and electrical impulses that sustain its life. so as it comes out of the printer, it's wouldn't be alive. it's conceivable that you might be able to get a defibulator and shock its heart into action. how well it would respond to being replicated and then having its heart kick-started is anyone's guess, though.
the storyline is kind of unintrusive. if you don't want to pay attention to it, it doesn't make much of a difference, however it's still there. it manifests itself as news stories updated at least once a week, usually more often. they used to have a good cartoon series that they produced as downloadable movies, but the production on that has dropped off. still, funcom does a decent job of keeping the universe in AO pretty lively. but like any other game, it's all what you make of it.
with the introduction of "The Notum Wars", AO has become a more player-driven story line as PVP battles erupt all throughout the planet. certain lands are pretty much uncontested, and other lands have turned into constant war zones. the plot isn't really advancing; rubi-ka has always been a land that was being fought for, but now people are becoming much more involved in the fight.
I agree that the "real fighting" is over by the time they send in the Reserves/NG. However, maybe it's just my (ARNG) unit, but we've been evaluated alongside active duty units and were more superior (though I'm in a Signal unit, so most of it is due to many soldiers having full-time civilian technical jobs).
That's a good point that having a technicial civilian job (with an actual IT budget) would naturally make someone in the Signal Corps more proficient. I was thinking of it from an Infantry perspective, because that's what I am. While there are many jobs that can be replicated and done better in the civilian sector, there's no where else to get the type and frequency of training that the Infantry requires other than to go out to the field and lay waste to an objective or practice your patrols.
having an ammo budget that is simply unheard of in the Reserves/NG, I'd say that any line company can out perform their AR/NG counter part. It's simply a matter of training.
Though, I gotta tip my patrol cap to you guys. part time or not, you guys are soldiers and that makes you all right by me. especially if you're kicking the crap out of other units in evals.:D
Personally, I think the regular army is full of cowardly, fat-assed pussys. Everytime something dangerous comes up, such as the war with Afghanistan and the ever-pending war with Iraq, the Army calls up reserves and National Guard to do the real fighting. There are 1.4 million people in the regular armed forces, but when they need a force of 20,000 on the ground in Afghanistan, they call up the reserves. Most of the people in the reserves and National Guard are married with kids, etc. What's up with that?
Speaking as an active duty soldier, I can tell you that you're full of crap. The "real fighting" is over with before the reserves and national guard are done palletizing their gear. 90% of the deployments that the AR and NG gets sent out on, are "peace-keeping missions" ie a show of force so that we maintain a presence in those countries, without having to lose our fighting force and momentum. you honestly think that the army chief of staff would rather send out a group of weekend warriors that has fired their weapons maybe 4 times in the past year than the several divisions of troops that are training on a constant basis? shinseki's dumb, but he's not that stupid.
and before you rear up on your high horse about the AR and NG being married with kids, you're going to have to realize that the vast majority of the regular army, is married with kids, too. in fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find an sergeant or captain or above that's *not* married.
back on topic, I have no idea what the hell they were thinking of when they built that thing. it's not like we couldn't retrofit the stuff we've already got.
I'd like for you to explain to the rest of us precisely how you get 100% analog signal onto a magnetic hard drive.
tivo's a video/audio encoder with a hard drive built in and input/output capability. everything that's stored on the hard drive is de facto, digital. the parent of this thread is still wrong, it IS a valid point that the DMCA does not cover this. however, it's still illegal via normal copyright laws.
then there's the 3rd option. the waste energy manifests itself as mana and enables me to cast lightning bolts to smite the puny dwaves AAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
shell ejection wouldn't be an issue with a vacumn. it'd probably actually be easier in a vacumn. guns rarely fire well underwater because the increased friction of the water prevents the bolt from fully locking. any time that happens, the weapon simply will not fire, as a saftey measure. if the bolt's not fully seated and locked, the bullet will detonate instead of firing.
overheating is a serious issue with guns. I was a machinegunner for a year in US Army. it's not a matter of the gun being too hot to handle, you can always wear heat resistant gloves for that. Nomex was a godsend to the infantry. the issue with overheating is that the metal expansion will affect normal function of the weapon. the first part of a gun to overheat is the barrel, for obvious reasons. once the barrel gets overheated, it will expand and hamper the casing from being extracted and ejected. once that begins to happen, the overall cycle of the gun will slow down. I've seen a M240B machinegun go from 850 rounds per minute, to about 400, in the course of about 10,000 rounds, fired in controlled bursts.
a pistol is much less prone to overheating, simply because it does not put that many bullets out at once. honestly, I think that the "has to have atmosphere to fire" bit was just oversight on the script writers. most civilians don't know anything about guns or physics.
as far as the refreshing amount of guns as opposed to laser weapons, I think murphy's law would apply. "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." hand lasers may be practical in this future setting, but simply too much of a pain in the ass to upkeep, fix and purchase, whereas gunpowder-based guns have been around for several centuries, are cheap and are proven and refined weapons.
Oh, by the way, if it was useless, how could errors in it affect our health?
like this img src=. there. a blank image tag.it's useless. now if I make an error in it, like give it an incorrect URL, it'll sit there for awhile trying to execute the code and eventually fail. same thing with your DNA. coded in a certain way, it might not do anything, but once there's an error that changes it from "useless" to "harmful" we've got a problem.
The way this looks like it's written to me is to be used in business LANs. No need for privacy there. The bottom line is what needs to be looked after. If the sys-admin needs additional permissions on your computer to be able to keep you from doing something stupid, oh well.
I know I'd like to beat some of my users regularly with a stick.
it's for users, not servers. how many users do you know that make more than 1 connection per second? a webpage with multiple linked images from different sites would be about the only thing I could think of off hand that a typical user would be looking at that would request more than one connection established per second.
No DoSing here. It's completely transparent to the guy in room 207 sending email or looking up stuff on the intranet.
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USB port and ship it with a roll-up keyboard. having to learn a new way of writing just for a product to work is asinine.
contrary to some people's belief, knowing graffiti doesn't elevate you into an exclusive club. it simply means that you're willing to put up with corporate work-around solutions instead of demanding something that actually fits your needs.
What if the gate is left wide open? If I am walking down the street, and I see a store with the front door open, I can walk in, without fear of going to jail.If they ask me to leave, and I don't, then I am trespassing.
unless they're running their system totally unsecured, something's going to prompt you for username and password. that's the part where "they ask me to leave, and I don't, then I am trespassing." Even if getting root is as easy as "username: root password: password" you still bypassed their security. you still *broke* in. let me say that again: you didn't walk in to an unsecured area, you *broke* into a poorly secured area.
I agree with you that the punishment should fit the crime, but "door" is never "wide open" however pathetic the security is, it's still on there and it's still a crime to get through it.
People shouldn't expect strangers not to visit their webservers and try to explore them, especially if strangers are not told what they should and shouldn't have access to!
Right, so running a brute force/dictionary routine is just an everyday normal part of browsing. I totally forgot that the vast majority of users out there have a "Obtain root/admin functions" button on the top of their Internet Explorer toolbar.
No, a better analogy for the internet marketplace would be a street full of vendors. You can buy from them, or if you're a sneaky bastard, you can break open their cart and make off with their earnings, or cripple their ability to perform business. Just how much common sense does it take to know that opening their cart (going someplace the html did not direct you to) whether or not it had a padlock on it, is not what they intended to do.
should hacker and defacers get treated as terrorists? probably not. should they get slapped with criminal charges. of course.
The California Supreme Court has ruled against Kazaa and has declared that 20 million dollars in damages be paid. All bills sent to Kazaa's headquarters were marked "Return to sender"
In other related news, the California Supreme Court has ruled that all public libraries are a direct infringement of copyright laws, since they contain large volumes of books and at least one copying machine, used for the exlicit purpose of copying books, without paying for them.
they're releasing a new version of mandrake linux and they're cutting things out of the desktop distro so that it'll fit on one CD. they've set up a poll for all mandrake users to pick and choose which features they want to ship on the CD.
This is a pretty cool idea. I don't use mandrake, so it does me no good, but the concept is really awesome. build up a community and then let the community drive the development and implementation of the product. this should serve as a great example of what the people with the money should be doing in the open source communities.
of course having *everything* would be nice, also. but you can always download the extra features you want/need.
well, there's always the convience of being able to do EVERYTHING at the computer. if I want to watch a DVD, I'll toss that in my DVD drive. if I want to listen to some music, I'll pick a few thousand songs and throw them in winamp (yes, they're all legal copies:p) my best friend is pretty much the same way, except he plays his gamecube games using a wave-bird IR controller and the video in for his PC. not to mention the overwhelmingly large amount of stuff that we can do on computers that can only be done on a computer.
it's really a matter of personal opinion. if you view your box as a tool and your other electrionics as fun, then you'll naturally gravitate to your other electronics. however, I tend to view my computer as fun and something that I just so happen to be able to get work done on. so I'd rather be on a computer.
As many such issues get ironed out, supporters of MPEG-4 want to ensure that it has room to prove itself in the market.
yes, as I recall, there was a college kid who coded a peer to peer network so that he could swap mp3s with his buddies. he called it Napster. the guy had absolutely no room to prove himself in the market and until the lawsuits rolled out, he was dominating it.
another college kid coded a windows gui for playing mp3s. he called it Win-Amp. he eventually got his product bought by AOL-TW for several million and with virtually no marketing, winamp is one of the most preferred mp3 players out there.
point is, you don't need "room to prove yourself". if your product is superior, the market will MAKE room for it.
well, actually http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/124022 3 slashdot is...but their editors don't communicate with each other well. of course, you can't really complain that much considering that the news is reader-driven. if readers see news and don't report it, we as a community don't get news. we've got no one to blame but ourselves if our news is late.
what? you mean headphones?
I'm still amazed that the presiding judge didn't laugh in the face of Search King's lawyers and tell them to get out of his courtroom.
actually, winamp's had the ability to play video for awhile now. with a mass array of plugins for winamp and it's support for the modding crowd, it's probably the most flexible media player available. however, winamp is owned by AOL-time warner. I wonder if AOL will simply leave it be or if they'll eventually jump on the DRM bandwagon and fuck winamp up.
Are we going to see the crackdown we're currently seeing with Digital Media extended to solid objects?
as more people obtain more advanced methods of copying things, enforcing copyright/patent laws will become so difficult, we'll either see a new task force built to seek out and stop this (gestapoesque) or police forces will simply ignore it, because it's just not worth the effort.
And what would happen if you scanned a live animal? Would the copy you create live?
even if you could create an exact copy, instantly, you couldn't replicate the chemical and electrical impulses that sustain its life. so as it comes out of the printer, it's wouldn't be alive. it's conceivable that you might be able to get a defibulator and shock its heart into action. how well it would respond to being replicated and then having its heart kick-started is anyone's guess, though.
the storyline is kind of unintrusive. if you don't want to pay attention to it, it doesn't make much of a difference, however it's still there. it manifests itself as news stories updated at least once a week, usually more often. they used to have a good cartoon series that they produced as downloadable movies, but the production on that has dropped off. still, funcom does a decent job of keeping the universe in AO pretty lively. but like any other game, it's all what you make of it.
with the introduction of "The Notum Wars", AO has become a more player-driven story line as PVP battles erupt all throughout the planet. certain lands are pretty much uncontested, and other lands have turned into constant war zones. the plot isn't really advancing; rubi-ka has always been a land that was being fought for, but now people are becoming much more involved in the fight.
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I agree that the "real fighting" is over by the time they send in the Reserves/NG. However, maybe it's just my (ARNG) unit, but we've been evaluated alongside active duty units and were more superior (though I'm in a Signal unit, so most of it is due to many soldiers having full-time civilian technical jobs).
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That's a good point that having a technicial civilian job (with an actual IT budget) would naturally make someone in the Signal Corps more proficient. I was thinking of it from an Infantry perspective, because that's what I am. While there are many jobs that can be replicated and done better in the civilian sector, there's no where else to get the type and frequency of training that the Infantry requires other than to go out to the field and lay waste to an objective or practice your patrols.
having an ammo budget that is simply unheard of in the Reserves/NG, I'd say that any line company can out perform their AR/NG counter part. It's simply a matter of training.
Though, I gotta tip my patrol cap to you guys. part time or not, you guys are soldiers and that makes you all right by me. especially if you're kicking the crap out of other units in evals.
Personally, I think the regular army is full of cowardly, fat-assed pussys. Everytime something dangerous comes up, such as the war with Afghanistan and the ever-pending war with Iraq, the Army calls up reserves and National Guard to do the real fighting. There are 1.4 million people in the regular armed forces, but when they need a force of 20,000 on the ground in Afghanistan, they call up the reserves. Most of the people in the reserves and National Guard are married with kids, etc. What's up with that?
Speaking as an active duty soldier, I can tell you that you're full of crap. The "real fighting" is over with before the reserves and national guard are done palletizing their gear. 90% of the deployments that the AR and NG gets sent out on, are "peace-keeping missions" ie a show of force so that we maintain a presence in those countries, without having to lose our fighting force and momentum. you honestly think that the army chief of staff would rather send out a group of weekend warriors that has fired their weapons maybe 4 times in the past year than the several divisions of troops that are training on a constant basis? shinseki's dumb, but he's not that stupid.
and before you rear up on your high horse about the AR and NG being married with kids, you're going to have to realize that the vast majority of the regular army, is married with kids, too. in fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find an sergeant or captain or above that's *not* married.
back on topic, I have no idea what the hell they were thinking of when they built that thing. it's not like we couldn't retrofit the stuff we've already got.
I'd like for you to explain to the rest of us precisely how you get 100% analog signal onto a magnetic hard drive.
tivo's a video/audio encoder with a hard drive built in and input/output capability. everything that's stored on the hard drive is de facto, digital. the parent of this thread is still wrong, it IS a valid point that the DMCA does not cover this. however, it's still illegal via normal copyright laws.
then there's the 3rd option. the waste energy manifests itself as mana and enables me to cast lightning bolts to smite the puny dwaves AAAA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
dammit. I really need to lay off the RPGs.
why's everyone got to pick on the furniture? what the hell did we do to you?
what's MST3K need with a big budget? it's a guy and a couple robots making fun of bad movies. it could operate with $10,000 an episode and be fine.
shell ejection wouldn't be an issue with a vacumn. it'd probably actually be easier in a vacumn. guns rarely fire well underwater because the increased friction of the water prevents the bolt from fully locking. any time that happens, the weapon simply will not fire, as a saftey measure. if the bolt's not fully seated and locked, the bullet will detonate instead of firing.
overheating is a serious issue with guns. I was a machinegunner for a year in US Army. it's not a matter of the gun being too hot to handle, you can always wear heat resistant gloves for that. Nomex was a godsend to the infantry. the issue with overheating is that the metal expansion will affect normal function of the weapon. the first part of a gun to overheat is the barrel, for obvious reasons. once the barrel gets overheated, it will expand and hamper the casing from being extracted and ejected. once that begins to happen, the overall cycle of the gun will slow down. I've seen a M240B machinegun go from 850 rounds per minute, to about 400, in the course of about 10,000 rounds, fired in controlled bursts.
a pistol is much less prone to overheating, simply because it does not put that many bullets out at once. honestly, I think that the "has to have atmosphere to fire" bit was just oversight on the script writers. most civilians don't know anything about guns or physics.
as far as the refreshing amount of guns as opposed to laser weapons, I think murphy's law would apply. "anything that can go wrong, will go wrong." hand lasers may be practical in this future setting, but simply too much of a pain in the ass to upkeep, fix and purchase, whereas gunpowder-based guns have been around for several centuries, are cheap and are proven and refined weapons.
I've got a few mailing lists I'd like to sell his name to.
to use PDAs for World Dictation!
MARCH ON MY PALM MINIONS! Go forth! And ravage the world!
*cackles deviously*
Oh, by the way, if it was useless, how could errors in it affect our health?
like this img src=. there. a blank image tag.it's useless. now if I make an error in it, like give it an incorrect URL, it'll sit there for awhile trying to execute the code and eventually fail. same thing with your DNA. coded in a certain way, it might not do anything, but once there's an error that changes it from "useless" to "harmful" we've got a problem.
The way this looks like it's written to me is to be used in business LANs. No need for privacy there. The bottom line is what needs to be looked after. If the sys-admin needs additional permissions on your computer to be able to keep you from doing something stupid, oh well.
I know I'd like to beat some of my users regularly with a stick.
it's for users, not servers. how many users do you know that make more than 1 connection per second? a webpage with multiple linked images from different sites would be about the only thing I could think of off hand that a typical user would be looking at that would request more than one connection established per second.
No DoSing here. It's completely transparent to the guy in room 207 sending email or looking up stuff on the intranet.